Two Killed In Week's Second Fatal Train Crash
POSTED: 6:30 am CST February 18,
2005
UPDATED: 6:39 am CST February 18,
2005
INDEPENDENCE, La. -- For the second time in four days, the City of New Orleans passenger train -- headed for Jackson -- smashed into a truck at a railroad crossing in Tangipahoa Parish.The latest accident happened Thursday in Independence, La.Two workmen died when the train smashed into their electric utility truck.
The train carried 80 passengers and fewer than 10 crewmembers. Emergency workers evacuated the passengers, who were loaded onto buses for the remainder of the trip. Thursday's wreck was less than 10 miles from Roseland, where a man and three girls died Sunday when the City of New Orleans hit their pickup truck. Both crossings had only crossbuck signs and no warning lights. Last year, the City of New Orleans derailed in Madison County, killing one woman.
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